Out on the Edge
Amongst them, the members of Winter Trio have probably racked up around 120 years of performing. As a distinct musical entity, though, they’re just hitting
Issue: 2016-04-14
Issue: 2016-04-14
“Wild, North and Proud”
Joe Boyle: The Klondike King Who Became a War Hero
Joe Boyle came to the Klondike with the first wave of gold-seekers in the early summer of 1897, but soon left with a dream of
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Heidi Hehn is Raven Mad
Heidi Hehn is crazy for ravens. It’s a taste she shares with many northerners. These big, black, intelligent birds bring wilderness into the city. Sometimes
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Intimate, Insightful and Non-Traditional
It’s 1929, Virginia Woolf publishes her famous extended feminist essay, called “A Room of One’s Own,” exploring the gender disparity between women and men. Fast
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Converting Adventure into Books and Film
Dianne Whelan is an award winning filmmaker, photographer and author who lived, until fairly recently, in Vancouver. At the time of this interview she was
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Diggin’ It Old School
The first thing that people know about me is that I am a city girl. It’s not that I do not have an appreciation for
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A Good Kind of Fat
Whenever I think of avocados, my mind immediately goes to a cartoon I saw circulating Twitter one day that shows an avocado running away from
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Deep Ecology within Architecture and Design
The Living Building Challenge is an international sustainable building certificate program to foster the conscious development and design of eco-friendly architecture. It was launched
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Yes we wood!
The first biomass heating project to use waste wood in the North has been up and running for a month. The project was initiated by
On a Wing and a Prayer
Monarch butterflies appear fragile, but it is extraordinarily hardy. Every year they migrate thousands of miles to overwinter in Mexico.
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Dawson and the Harrison Effect
I’ve been enjoying a couple of relatively new books about the work of the latecTed Harrison. They are Ted Harrison Collected (Douglas & McIntyre) and
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National Theatre Festival Comes to Whitehorse
“It’s the only national theatre festival in Canada,” Selene Vakharia tells me. She, along with a handful of other local creatives, are working on the
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An International Celebration of Talent
The Folk Society of Whitehorse has been hosting the famous Yukon-Alaska Coffee House for more than 25 years. This event features two coffee house evenings,
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